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good fit.

ALEX KING, DENVER WEB DEVELOPER Dear WordPress community, My apologies for the selfish and personal nature of this post. I hope you will forgive me given the circumstances. As most of you know, I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in 2013.. One of the things my wife and I are trying to do is put together some information about my career that will hopefully give my 6 year-old daughter a better sense of who I was as an adult. ALEX KING, DENVER WEB DEVELOPER Manton writes about a few workflows here the follows it up with the post I’ve linked to.. FWIW I’ve posted to my own site first then passed stuff along to Twitter and Facebook since we released the Social plugin for WordPress back in 2011. Each of my posts has a link to its counterpart on Twitter and Facebook, and reactions on those networks are brought back in as comments on this site. SHARE ICON : ALEXKING.ORG An icon originally created to represent the generic action of sharing a web page. This could mean adding the page to a social bookmarking site or memetracker, e-mailing the page to someone, etc. The Share Icon was sold to ShareThis, Inc. in 2007. I originally released the Share Icon under the following Open Source licenses: GPL, LGPL, BSD and Creative Commons Attribution 2.5. HOW TO SET UP AN AIRPORT EXPRESS TO PROVIDE A WIRED A couple of tips for setting up the WDS configuration: You will need to copy/paste the Airport ID of each airport into the proper location in the admin panels. You need to enter the Airport ID of the relays/remotes into the Main and the address of the Main into the remotes. You must make sure that the wireless network settings of the

WDS relays

CLASSIC DAVID FEHERTY QUOTES : ALEXKING.ORG Classic David Feherty Quotes. February 11, 2012. I haven’t fact-checked these – if they’re not all true, they should be. “Fortunately, he (Rory) is 22 years old so his right wrist should be the strongest muscle in his body.”. “That ball is so far left, Lassie couldn’t find it if it was wrapped in bacon.”. “I am

sorry Nick

LOGITECH MX REVOLUTION RE-CONNECTION INSTRUCTIONS Logitech MX Revolution Re-Connection Instructions. August 15, 2007. I bought a second Logitech MX Revolution on eBay (refurbished) to have one at the office. Problem was, it didn’t seem to work when I plugged it in. Luckily Brian had already figured out the problem when he’d gotten his, so he was able to tell me to use a Windows box to

go

CHECKBOX LABEL POSITIONING IN CSS : ALEXKING.ORG I changed the way I position checkboxes and their labels in the alpha 4 release of FeedLounge. The previous technique proved to be very inconsistently applied in Firefox - it would look right on one load, then you'd hit refresh and it would be all gollywockit. Many decisions in form layout and label positioning are largely personal preference. POWERMAC G5 QUAD RAM FIX (FANS ON FULL BLAST, WON’T BOOT (Sorry for the long title, trying to make it descriptive to help future searchers on this topic.) Background: I've been having problems with the RAM in my PowerMac G5 Quad pretty much ever since I got it: When it Rains… 2006-12-15 More RAM Problems 2006-12-10 RAM Install, Take 3 2005-12-08 Arrival 2005-12-06 OWC’s RMA Policies 2005-12-01 Setting up the Quad 2005-11-30 The ABOUT : ALEXKING.ORGSEE MORE ON ALEXKING.ORG CONTACT : ALEXKING.ORG Contact. I passed away in September 2015. My family can be contacted at public@ {this domain} and will monitor it going forward. Alex was on Twitter as @alexkingorg. If you’re looking for a full-service agency for an enterprise WordPress project, Crowd Favorite may be a

good fit.

ALEX KING, DENVER WEB DEVELOPER Dear WordPress community, My apologies for the selfish and personal nature of this post. I hope you will forgive me given the circumstances. As most of you know, I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in 2013.. One of the things my wife and I are trying to do is put together some information about my career that will hopefully give my 6 year-old daughter a better sense of who I was as an adult. ALEX KING, DENVER WEB DEVELOPER Manton writes about a few workflows here the follows it up with the post I’ve linked to.. FWIW I’ve posted to my own site first then passed stuff along to Twitter and Facebook since we released the Social plugin for WordPress back in 2011. Each of my posts has a link to its counterpart on Twitter and Facebook, and reactions on those networks are brought back in as comments on this site. SHARE ICON : ALEXKING.ORG An icon originally created to represent the generic action of sharing a web page. This could mean adding the page to a social bookmarking site or memetracker, e-mailing the page to someone, etc. The Share Icon was sold to ShareThis, Inc. in 2007. I originally released the Share Icon under the following Open Source licenses: GPL, LGPL, BSD and Creative Commons Attribution 2.5. LOGITECH MX REVOLUTION RE-CONNECTION INSTRUCTIONS Logitech MX Revolution Re-Connection Instructions. August 15, 2007. I bought a second Logitech MX Revolution on eBay (refurbished) to have one at the office. Problem was, it didn’t seem to work when I plugged it in. Luckily Brian had already figured out the problem when he’d gotten his, so he was able to tell me to use a Windows box to

go

CLASSIC DAVID FEHERTY QUOTES : ALEXKING.ORG Classic David Feherty Quotes. February 11, 2012. I haven’t fact-checked these – if they’re not all true, they should be. “Fortunately, he (Rory) is 22 years old so his right wrist should be the strongest muscle in his body.”. “That ball is so far left, Lassie couldn’t find it if it was wrapped in bacon.”. “I am

sorry Nick

CHECKBOX LABEL POSITIONING IN CSS : ALEXKING.ORG I changed the way I position checkboxes and their labels in the alpha 4 release of FeedLounge. The previous technique proved to be very inconsistently applied in Firefox - it would look right on one load, then you'd hit refresh and it would be all gollywockit. Many decisions in form layout and label positioning are largely personal preference. HOW TO SET UP AN AIRPORT EXPRESS TO PROVIDE A WIRED So apparently cinder may be driving down here tomorrow! goodness gracious.  At least the room is pretty much ready to go, just need to clean some stuff out.  I have to also clean off at least half the office to find usable desk space (this mostly involves a lot of filing and judicious trashing) and provide internet up there for her old G5.  I bought . this.  An apple airport express POWERMAC G5 QUAD RAM FIX (FANS ON FULL BLAST, WON’T BOOT (Sorry for the long title, trying to make it descriptive to help future searchers on this topic.) Background: I've been having problems with the RAM in my PowerMac G5 Quad pretty much ever since I got it: When it Rains… 2006-12-15 More RAM Problems 2006-12-10 RAM Install, Take 3 2005-12-08 Arrival 2005-12-06 OWC’s RMA Policies 2005-12-01 Setting up the Quad 2005-11-30 The SOCIAL : ALEXKING.ORG Explore on GitHub WordPress.org Social is a WordPress plugin that connects your site to Twitter and Facebook; and enables a number of great social features. These include: Connecting multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts to your site (including Facebook pages). Broadcastings new posts to Twitter and Facebook. Pulling back reactions from Twitter and Facebook as comments on your posts. CONTACT : ALEXKING.ORG Contact. I passed away in September 2015. My family can be contacted at public@ {this domain} and will monitor it going forward. Alex was on Twitter as @alexkingorg. If you’re looking for a full-service agency for an enterprise WordPress project, Crowd Favorite may be a

good fit.

ALEX KING, DENVER WEB DEVELOPER Manton writes about a few workflows here the follows it up with the post I’ve linked to.. FWIW I’ve posted to my own site first then passed stuff along to Twitter and Facebook since we released the Social plugin for WordPress back in 2011. Each of my posts has a link to its counterpart on Twitter and Facebook, and reactions on those networks are brought back in as comments on this site. TWEETS : ALEXKING.ORG @1Password thanks for chiming in. You make it easy to be proud to be a customer (one who refers your product to others). /cc @chrismessina FEEDLOUNGE : ALEXKING.ORG A feed reader start-up I co-founded with my friend Scott. We created a great web-based feed reading interface but sadly weren't able to make the business a success. When the demise of Google Reader was announced I was flattered to see a few folks waxing nostalgic for FeedLounge. ALEX KING, DENVER WEB DEVELOPER Alex King, Web Developer. I passed away in September 2015. I was an independent web developer based in Denver, CO. I was an original contributor to WordPress, I created the Share Icon, and I founded Crowd Favorite. Read more. DECONSTRUCTING SAMSUNG REFRIGERATOR MODEL NUMBERS RF266AERS. RF263AEPN. RF263AERS. Turns out that the PN vs RS bit at the end refers to the color. RS = stainless steel, PN = platinum. The platinum finish is a less finger-print-ey finish. The 266 vs 263 parts refer to specific models/feature sets. The POWERMAC G5 QUAD RAM FIX (FANS ON FULL BLAST, WON’T BOOT (Sorry for the long title, trying to make it descriptive to help future searchers on this topic.) Background: I've been having problems with the RAM in my PowerMac G5 Quad pretty much ever since I got it: When it Rains… 2006-12-15 More RAM Problems 2006-12-10 RAM Install, Take 3 2005-12-08 Arrival 2005-12-06 OWC’s RMA Policies 2005-12-01 Setting up the Quad 2005-11-30 The APACHE 2 ONLY SERVES FIRST VIRTUAL HOST : ALEXKING.ORG Note: this post is mainly to help people searching for a solution to this issue. Yesterday I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard which brought Apache 2 to me along with the many other changes. I develop sites locally using domains like alexking.dev, crowdfavorite.dev, etc. by setting these up HOSTS entries and virtual hosts in Apache. In Apache 1.x, I had the following in my httpd.conf FIXING A MYSQL CHARACTER ENCODING MISMATCH : ALEXKING.ORG We ran into an interesting MySQL character encoding issue at Crowd Favorite today while working to upgrade and launch a new client site. Here is what we were trying to do: copy the production database to the staging database so we could properly configure and test everything before pushing the new site live. Pretty simple right? It was, until we noticed a bunch of weird character encoding

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REQUEST: ALEX KING REMEMBERANCES

August 24, 2015

Dear WordPress community, My apologies for the selfish and personal nature of this post. I hope you will forgive me given the circumstances. As most of you know, I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in 2013

.

One of the things my wife and I are trying to do is put together some information about my career that will hopefully give my 6 year-old daughter a better sense of who I was as an adult. She knows me as “dad”, but when she gets older she’ll be curious about who I was to my peers and colleagues. I’ve spent more than a decade in the WordPress community and I’d like to request that you to share a few thoughts or remembrances about me that we can compile and share with her when the time is right. If we have crossed paths or if I have managed to do something that you found helpful, I’d love it if you would take a few minutes to write it down and send it to me or my wife: heatherkingcom@gmail.com. If you’re willing to have the story shared publicly, please indicate that accordingly. By default, we will keep everything confidential. This post is part of the thread: Cancer – an ongoing story on this site. View the thread timeline for more context on this post.

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To: Family & Friends Date: August 24, 2015 Subject: Cycle 1 of New Trial This was originally an email written to my family and friends on the date above. I decided to make these public in the event they may be helpful to someone in the future who is embarking on a similar journey

to mine.

Hi Everyone,

I’m nearly through my first cycle of the new clinical trial and overall I think it’s gone pretty well. I was able to get the 6 pills/day (3 in the morning, 3 in the evening) without too much concern. That said, by the end of the 5 days taking the pills I would basically sleep for the day. During the 2 weeks off without pills (I’m currently on the second week of this) I’ve still had some fatigue and I’m still on the oxygen tank. However I’ve been able to get back to reading to Caitlin and doing Lego sets with her. The cough that I’d developed during by washout period before the trial has improved a bit and I think there has been a slight reduction in some of the visible tumor

growth.

I’m still pretty limited as to what I can do physically, but I’ve enjoyed hanging out on the couch during visits from friends and family. Luckily there is plenty of golf, baseball, and now football on TV to keep me busy on the couch. I don’t yet know when I’ll be scheduling my next CT scan to check the effectiveness of the treatment, but I’m guessing it will be in

the next 4-6 weeks.

We’ve also started to try to compile a bit of information about me that Caitlin might find interesting later down the road. If you haven’t received an email about this effort, you probably will in

the near future.

This post is part of the thread: Cancer – an ongoing story on this site. View the thread timeline for more context on this post. ANKER POWERPORT 5 USB CHARGING STATION

August 22, 2015

I enjoy reading posts about the tools people use. Casey recently posted about some of his travel toolkit, including a 5 USB port charger. I can definitely see this being valuable for travel, but my current use case is my bedside table. The charger happily accommodates my iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch charging cables, plus a micro USB cable for my Kindle and bluetooth headphones with a port to spare. A single box is much easier to manage than individual wall-to-USB warts for

each cable/device.

Comments Off on Anker PowerPort 5 USB Charging Station Categories Technology PERSONAL WORDPRESS THEME

August 22, 2015

I’ve forked the FavePersonal theme to release a few changes that I’ve made to it for my own site. An improved Gallery feature, including support for WordPress shortcode galleries. If you’re uploading photos directly to your gallery post, you can use drag and drop to set the order for them now. The Post Formats admin…

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August 8, 2015

That liberating feeling when you let a domain expire for that project you never quite got around to.

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LO, ROWHAMMER! →

August 7, 2015

This is nuts. Do not want.

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11 YEARS OLD

August 3, 2015

Still going strong, especially if there is a ball in front of her to

chase.

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SAFARI VS. CHROME: POWER CONSUMPTION →

August 3, 2015

> I’m increasingly using Chrome because Safari can’t get the job > done. I don’t know whose fault it is that these sites don’t work > with Safari, but to me as a user it doesn’t really matter. > Improving power efficiency is great, but it would probably save even > more battery life if Safari were compatible enough that I didn’t > have to keep Chrome running. To: Family & Friends

Date: July 30, 2015

Subject: An Eventful Friday Night + New Trial Hi Everyone, On Friday afternoon I had my initial interview for the TAS-102 trial. As is standard with these appointments, we reviewed my history, the treatment schedule, side effects (they sound relatively mild), and I signed the consent form to volunteer for the study. From there I needed to get blood work and a CT…

Continued…

MEET THE NEW MONK: FINTAN RYAN →

July 26, 2015

> Beyond the technical skills, however, Fintan seems to have a knack > for asking interesting questions, a trait that can be harder to find > than the ability to answer them. I’m not at all surprised at how RedMonk went about their latest round of hiring. Sounds like they have landed a great fit. Congrats

all around.

FASTMAIL ENABLES IMAP PUSH FOR IOS →

July 26, 2015

What a nice surprise. FastMail 1 is one of the internet services I’ve used the longest; surviving several ownership changes. That’s not easy – great job pulling it off and continuing to offer stellar service. ------------------------- * That’s a referral link. BBEDIT LEAVING THE MAC APP STORE →

July 26, 2015

If you’re running a Mac software distribution and both Panic and Bare Bones sign up then decide to leave due to the limitations… something isn’t working right. OPEN SPACE AND FOOTHILLS IN COLORADO

July 23, 2015

I’ve been meaning to stop the car and take this photo for years; finally did it. I might try it again with more focus on the broken down stone structure on the left side.

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OPEN SPACE FENCE

July 23, 2015

I liked the fence here – ended up being right next to where we parked by the side of the road. YOU ARE NOT YOUR COMPANY →

July 19, 2015

> The idea of an entrepreneur is to ideally build a company that is > bigger than the founder. In the early days you are critical, but > over time your job is to build systems and hire people (or teams of > people) to fill in these critical roles. In many ways the true > measure of success is when you’ve managed to make yourself no > longer a necessary piece. I often said that my job at Crowd Favorite was to make myself redundant. And then to build redundancy into the team, processes, etc.

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